Name: Samuel Ortiz Email: sameo@linux.intel.com Background: I am a Principal Software Engineer working for Intel, where I work on several projects related to virtualization and containers: Kata Containers, rust-vmm and Cloud Hypervisor. My journey with the Kata Containers project started back when I initially lead the Clear Containers project at Intel, a few years ago. Since then I have contributed to many different areas of the project, from core components like the virtcontainers package to integration work with the CRI-O and containerd projects. I was part of the initial Clear Container and RunV engineering efforts to merge the two projects and have been on the Kata Containers Architecture Committee since then. Over the past few months we've seen Kata Containers being deployed in several very large production environments, showing how strong and scalable the project has become. Such large deployments also bring new requirements for security, density and performance that we, as a community, need to look at and meet. I believe this can only be achieved with Kata supporting new security models and virtualization technologies, losing a few abstraction layers and features, and being more tightly integrated with the Cloud Native ecosystem. This is what I want to help push through Kata Containers 2.0, and this is why I'd like to renew my seat on the Kata Architecture Committee. Samuel.